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The people of Cape Coast woke up this morning expecting the ancient capital city of colonial Gold Coast to be dominated by the President of the Republic and some 40,000 NDC gurus and activists.

Instead, the NDC Campaign Launch in Cape Coast has been haunted by the shocking and mysterious death of President John Evans Atta Mills 4 years ago.

Sombre black and red posters, with a picture of a sad looking President Mills and a shadow of a person carrying a knife, ready to stab Prof. Mills in the back,  have already dominated the city.

A closer look at the shadowy figure carrying the knife, hints of an even more conspiratorial, sinister story. The shadow looks like the main beneficiary of the sudden death of the first President of the Republic from the Central Region.

The posters can be seen in so many prominent places such as Adisadel, Abura, Moree Barrier, Peru Junction, and the main Cape Coast to Takoradi highway. Not even the proximity of the Cape Coast Stadium, where the NDC has made the centerpiece of their campaign launch, has been spared those haunting posters.

Fantes in general, and the people from the Central Region in particular, believe the memory of their son has been insulted by the man who succeeded him, his Vice President, John Dramani Mahama. The NDC chose to launch their 2016 campaign in the Central Region to once again exploit the death of Prof. Mills and, with the hope that the event would revive their dwindling fortunes among Fantes, who feel abused, misused and dumped by the Mahama-led NDC.

President Mills was given no peace until he died 5 months to the end of his four year term in July 2012.

One of his greatest tormentors was Kofi Adams, who was the Deputy General Secretary of the NDC and Spokesperson to former President Jerry John Rawlings.

Mr Adams went as far as to convince the former First Lady, Mrs Konadu Agyemang Rawlings, to challenge President Mills in a needless, stressful presidential primary.

When that didn't succeed in getting rid of President Mills, Mr Adams, who had then been suspended from the NDC, went ahead to convince Mrs Rawlings to form her own party, the National Democratic Party.

He was the brain and organiser behind the NDP.

He formed a group of sharp teethers, FONKAR, whose main purpose was to insult and torment President Mills.

They tormented the man until Ghanaians heard one day that the President had died a most undignified death, with his body sent in a pickup truck from the Castle and dumped at the 37 Military Hospital.

To date, the mystery behind the President's death has never been solved or the story told. The cause of death is such a sore point in the country and remains a controversy with different official versions.

President Mahama, immediately after succeeding the dead Mills, rewarded Kofi Adams by giving him a prominent role in his campaign in 2012.

Mr. Adams' special operations included seeing to the NDP being disqualified from filing a candidate in 2012. This he succeeded in doing.

After the last elections, President Mahama sponsored Kofi Adams to beat the incumbent to become the National Organizer of the NDC.

He has now even taken over the job of Elvis Afriyie Ankrah who managed the NDC campaign in 2012. Mr Adams is the NDC Campaign Coordinator for 2016, making him the main man with the responsibility of leading Mahama's re-election bid.

This latest incident revives the call for President John Mahama and his NDC to come clean on what actually led to the death of Prof. Mills.

"They want to know who killed Atta Mills, many of us want to know that too", a resident who gave his name as Ato Forson said, after staring at the posters in Moree for a few minutes.